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pearance; eyes separated from each other on the top by twice the 

 Avidth of the upper lobe. Antenna about one-fourth longer than the 

 body, variegated with brown and white pubescence. 



Pronotum four-fifths wider than long, subequal in w^idth at base 

 and apex, widest at middle; sides feebly, obliquely expanded from 

 apical angles to a feeble tubercle on each side at middle, the tubercle 

 slightly acute at apex, then obliquely narrowed to the base; disk 

 flattened along base, narrowly, transversely depressed along anterior 

 margin, with two slightly elevated, obtusely rounded tubercles, 

 arranged transversely on disk at apical third ; surface coarsely, 

 deeply, irregularly punctate, with a row of similar punctures along 

 base and anterior depression, rather densely clothed with short, re- 

 cumbent, white and pale yellow pubescence intermixed, and orna- 

 mented with dark brown pubescence as follows : A small, elongate 

 spot in front of scutellum, and a large spot on each side behind the 

 lateral tubercle. Scutellum broadly triangular, broadly rounded at 

 apex, sparsely pubescent. 



Elytra three-fourths longer than wide, distinctly wider than pro- 

 notum at middle; humeri prominent and slightly elevated; sides 

 nearly parallel to behind middle, then arcuately narrowed to the 

 tips, which are separately, narrowly, obliquely truncate internally, 

 the exterior angle obtuse, but not produced; disk uneven, with a 

 few moderately elevated tubercles near base ; surface coarsely, deeply, 

 irregularly punctate from bases to apices, densely clothed with mod- 

 erately long, recumbent, brownish-white pubescence, each elytron 

 ornamented with dark brown pubescence as follows : A small spot at 

 humeral angle; a few irregularly distributed, round spots; an irregu- 

 lar, inconspicuous, transverse spot near base; and a narrow, irregular 

 fascia extending obliquely backward from sutural margin at middle 

 to middle of disk at apical fourth, in front of which is a similar 

 fascia extending obliquely forward from lateral margin at apical 

 fifth to middle of disk just behind the middle. 



Beneath feebly granulose, rather densely clothed wath long, re- 

 cumbent, brownish white pubescence, the legs variegated w^ith white 

 and brown pubescence; tibiae annulated w^th brown pubescence; 

 femora strongly pedunculate; prosternal process three-fourths as 

 wide as coxal cavity. 



Length, 7 mm; width, 3 mm. 



Type Jocality. — Pan de Matanzas Mountain, Matanzas Province, 

 Cuba. 



%;?e.— U.S.N.M. no. 50978. 



Remarl's. — Described from a single specimen collected June 12, 

 1932, by S. C. Bruner, A. R. Otero, and L, C. Scaramuzza (Cuba 

 E. E. A. Ent. no. 9945). 



